Jean Swetland




Over the years, a number of North Tonawanda's prominent citizens were parishioners of the church, including McLeans, Rumbolds, Wagenschuetz's, Humphreys, Herschells, Spillmans, and even Henry P. Smith, III, who served as Mayor and Congressman. Jean Swetland, a nationally-famous lyric soprano from North Tonawanda , who performed in Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1951 as well as in a pops concert with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in 1949, sang locally at the North Presbyterian Church on a number of occasions. Jean, who lived at 350 Thompson Street with her mother, Mildred, and sister, Viola, also sang at resort hotels in the Adirondacks and the Catskills and also performed with the Little Orchestra Society in Town Hall, New York, in 1950 and with the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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